Ukraine US biolabs

Russian accusations of a U.Southward.-funded and administered 'biowarfares' laboratory inquiry program in Ukraine has led to rampant speculation about the nature of these Pentagon-funded laboratories. The Russians' insistence that it has prove of such a bioweapons program has become a major hurdle at the diplomatic negotiations between Russia and Ukraine in Republic of belarus.

Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov charged at a press conference last calendar week that "the Pentagon built two biowarfare labs and they have been developing pathogens there in Kyiv and in Odessa." Lavrov besides compared the presence of the laboratories to the U.s.a.' Weapons of Mass Devastation plan allegations that led it to invade Republic of iraq in 2003 and topple dictator Saddam Hussein.

Leonid Slutsky, head of the Duma Committee on International Affairs and a member of the Russian delegation at the talks with Ukraine, argued that the purported development of biological weapons components "ostend that the Russian federation had good reasons for conducting a special military operation to demilitarize Ukraine."

Major General Igor Konashenkov, an official representative of the Russian Ministry of Defence, charged on Sunday that "components of biological weapons were being developed in Ukraine, in close proximity to Russian territory."

Among the Russians' accusations, the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine has scrubbed a number of documents related to the Ukrainian "Biological Threat Reduction" program.

Those documents have been retrieved and tin can exist read beneath. The documents show both the locations of the Ukrainian laboratories and the Section of Defense'southward list as a "donor" to the program.

"The Electronic Integrated Disease Surveillance Organization (EIDSS) is a software system which is designed to strengthen monitoring and prevention of human and animal diseases within the 1 Wellness concept, and facilitate compliance of International Health Regulations (IHR) 2005," the embassy document states.

In 2011 EIDSS was introduced in Ukraine with installations at the following sites:

  • Central Sanitary-Epidemiology Station in Kyiv (CSES)
  • Ukrainian Research Anti-Plague Institute in Odessa (URAPI)
  • Vinnitsa Oblast Sanitary-Epidemiological Station
  • Vinnitsa Urban center Sanitary- Epidemiological Station
  • Kalynivska Rayon Sanitary- Epidemiological Station in Vinnitsa Oblast
  • Zhitomir Oblast Germ-free- Epidemiological Station
  • Khmelnitska Oblast Germ-free- Epidemiological Station as regional sites

"The main objective of the program is to implement EIDSS at the sites of the State Sanitary-Epidemiological Service of Ukraine for monitoring and outbreak prevention of diseases including those acquired by Especially Dangerous Pathogens," the document adds.

The Section of Defense expenditures as listed for select Ukrainian laboratories follow beneath:

  • Dnipropetrovsk Diagnostic Laboratory (USD $1,935,557)
  • Dnipropetrovsk State Regional Diagnostic Veterinarian Laboratory (USD $one,810, 547)
  • Kharkiv Diagnostic Laboratory (USD $1,638,375)
  • Luhansk Regional Diagnostic Veterinary Laboratory (USD $ane,746,312)
  • Lviv Diagnostic Laboratory (USD $one,927,158)
  • Lviv Regional Diagnostic Veterinarian Laboratory (USD $i,734,971)
  • Vinnytsia Oblast Laboratory Heart (USD $i,504,840)
  • Zakarpartska Oblast Laboratory Center (USD $1,920,432)
  • Establish of Veterinary Medicine of the National Academy of Agrarian Sciences ( USD $2,109,375.23)

The U.Due south. Embassy in Ukraine explained the operation of the laboratories and accused the Russians of spreading disinformation well-nigh their nature in 2020. Watch:

"The biological threat reduction program is working in 27 countries," the U.S. administrator to Kazakhstan William Moser said. "We've feel this disinformation and misinformation is done just to really exploit divisions."

"Nosotros've had accusations that some inquiry projects were being used to create threats, non to identify threats and reduce them," Dr. Mary Lancaster added. "Ulterior motives are beingness injected where none exist."

"We've congenital these capabilities for the partners, their central reference labs for inquiry," Lance Brooks said. "They publish everything they do. They invite the international community into their laboratories. They're working on behalf and the benefit of the people of their corresponding countries."

Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov, however, has accused the U.S. and Ukraine of a lack of transparency.

"Nosotros have data that the Pentagon is preoccupied with the chemical and biological installations in Ukraine," Lavrov claimed. "The Pentagon congenital two biowarfare labs and they accept been developing pathogens in that location in Kyiv and in Odessa."

"And now they are concerned that they may lose command over these labs," he argued. "And you know what it may be like in future. And the Americans decline flatly and resolutely to start an inspection mechanism as part of the convention for the prohibition of chemical weapons. And they build new chemical and biological facilities all across Russian borders."

"And, you know, many other developments happen," Lavrov went on. "The CIA has been on the ground in droves, and they have been grooming the Ukrainian ground forces, not to wage a war with Poland, plain. And when developments in Iraq happened, when the United States claimed information technology was a threat to the U.Southward. national security, did anyone enquire back then why the Us back then decided to bring a country 10,000 kilometers off its coast to order, because the U.Southward. is a great ability?"

"When Russian federation says at that place is a threat to united states of america, they start telling us that at that place is not a threat at all, but you know, we will decide what is needed to provide for our security," Lavrov stated. "And information technology'southward close and next to our borders, we will not go 10,000 kilometers away to enforce our rules."

Russian federation is therefore invoking the United States' invasion of Iraq in 2003 as a pretext for invading Ukraine. It turned out afterward the invasion that weapons inspectors could find scant if whatsoever evidence that then Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was maintaining an active Weapons of Mass Devastation (WMD) program. Nonetheless, the New York Times reported that Iraq had old stockpiles of WMDs that were discovered by U.S. soldiers.

In May 2020, Lavrov defendant the The states "categorically opposing the adoption of a protocol to the convention of banning biological and toxin weapons, which would establish a mechanism to verify compliance by member countries with their obligation not to produce such weapons."

"The United States' reluctance to ensure transparency of its military-biological activities in different regions of the world, of form, raises questions about what is really happening and what goals are existence pursued," Lavrov said at a news conference afterward a virtial meeting with foreign ministers of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO).

"These laboratories are densely formed along the perimeter of the borders of the Russian Federation, and, accordingly, next to the borders of the People'due south Republic of Communist china," Lavrov added.

The U.S. Diplomatic mission in Ukraine has published information about its "Biological Threat Reduction Program" in Ukraine:

The U.S. Department of Defense's Biological Threat Reduction Plan collaborates with partner countries to counter the threat of outbreaks (deliberate, adventitious, or natural) of the globe's most unsafe infectious diseases. The programme accomplishes its bio-threat reduction mission through development of a bio-run a risk direction culture; international research partnerships; and partner chapters for enhanced bio-security, bio-safety, and bio-surveillance measures. The Biological Threat Reduction Programme'due south priorities in Ukraine are to consolidate and secure pathogens and toxins of security concern and to continue to ensure Ukraine can discover and report outbreaks caused past dangerous pathogens before they pose security or stability threats.

Current executive agents of the Biological Threat Reduction Programme in Ukraine are the Ministry of Health, the Country Service of Ukraine for Nutrient Rubber and Consumer Protection, the National Academy of Agrarian Sciences, and the Ministry of Defense.

The fact sheets on the U.S. Diplomatic mission in Ukraine website on the following laboratories are cited in a higher place.

Ukraine lab reports

  • Lviv Diagnostic Laboratory (PDF 101 KB)
  • Lviv Regional Diagnostic Veterinarian Laboratory (PDF 101 KB)
  • Kharkiv Diagnostic Laboratory (PDF 98 KB)
  • Luhansk Regional Diagnostic Veterinary Laboratory (Luhansk RDVL) (PDF 91 KB)
  • Dnipropetrovsk Diagnostic Laboratory (PDF 102 KB)
  • Vinnytsia Diagnostic Laboratory (Vinnytsia DL) (PDF 99 KB)

The U.S. embassy website partly corroborates a 'viral map' that purports to evidence American biological laboratories in Ukraine.

Ukraine biolabs

There is no stiff evidence of U.S. funded "bioweapons" research in Ukraine. Therefore, there is a strong possibility that this is Russian disinformation. But the U.S. embassy in Ukraine lists biological "threat reduction" laboratories, similar to the ones the U.Southward. funded in Wuhan. The readers can draw their own conclusions.